Using Twitter in ministry

After hearing all the hype about Twitter I decided to check it out for myself. Honestly, it was largely disinteresting to me. I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at on the site and why everyone was making such a big deal out of it. So I left only to read even more about this strange phenomenon later and visit the site once again, leaving with the same, Who cares?, question in mind. But then the other night I decided to give it a try and see what all the hype was about and discovered, like almost everyone else, that it does become strangely addictive. Very weird.

So now I’m thinking how we can use this new tool in ministry. The only idea coming to mind is to make an account for announcements to those involved in your ministry. Of course, they all have to be users of Twitter, too.

I guess someone could also create an account for sending a “verse of the day” or something to subscribers, too. I dunno. Anyone else have an idea?

I think there is a lot of potential in twitter for ministry. As you said it can be an updater for announcements and such for your own group, as well as sending out multiple “memory” verses during the day. It can also be used to refer your “watchers” to good articles/blog entries as you come across them. It doesn’t have to be an exclusive “i’m walking the dog,” “now i’m eating a sandwich,” and “now I’m going to the bathroom.” I’m using twitter right now just to talk back and forth and meet new people. I think as it catches on more and more the uses will become more obvious as well.

Maybe I’m still a Twitter noob, but I wish there was a way for me to reply back to people’s updates. Some of them just demand a smart alec response, ya know? :)

I’m not sure I’ll be use Twitter for announcements here anytime soon. According to Twittermap.com, there’s only one other person within a 100 mile radius from me that uses Twitter. Ahh yes, I’m a pioneer! lol

it’s fantastic… and they don’t actually have the verse ref… just the verse… but that’s cool… it makes you try and remember where it’s from… and it comes at a random time during the day… always unexpected!

I’m trying the twitter badge on my site. Just to see what it is like. I was thinking you could use it within a church staff to update each other on progress of projects or things like that. Well, I can’t. We still have dial-up (can’t get highspeed where we’re at, at least not yet).

That’s a great idea, Mike! (I’m one of your “followers” on Twitter now.) :)

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